By Katie Silver, Sophomore, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published October 10, 2019
The Jewish High Holidays begin with Rosh Hashanah and extend through the end of Sukkot, encompassing a month-long holiday season peppered with days that many Jews spend in services and with their families. Many of these holidays are little known to...
By BRADFORD SIWAK, SENIOR, LADUE
• Published September 12, 2019
If you spot Jill Goldwasser in a noisy restaurant, you may see her quiet a group of friends, open her iPhone’s camera application, hit record, greet hundreds of followers with a calm yet enthusiastic “Hi everyone!” and then review the French fries...
By Eliana Brook, SENIOR, MICDS
• Published September 12, 2019
A Student’s Guide to Successful Back-to-School Shopping is back in session, and for many students, their backpack becomes a place where papers and pencils are thrown, yet rarely ever seen again. Many students attend their first day of school with one...
BY JORDAN EISEN, SOPHOMORE, PARKWAY NORTH
• Published September 12, 2019
Jewish summer sleep-away camp is meaningful in many ways to Jewish teens. It’s a place for them to get away from the stresses of home and school, meet new friends and serve as a holy place to connect with God. Notably, since prayer at camp greatly differs...
By Olivia Riutcel, Freshman, Webster Groves High School
• Published May 10, 2019
This summer, Jewish teens from across the country will travel to Atlanta July 28-Aug. 2 and Detroit Aug. 4-9 to compete in the JCC Maccabi Games, an annual multi-sports event open to Jewish teen athletes from all over the world. To Parkway North freshman...
By Noah Kleinlehrer, Freshman, MICDS
• Published May 10, 2019
In March, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS) performed their annual winter/spring musical “Ragtime” by Terrence McNally (based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow). The emotional and enthralling story follows three main groups:...
By Eliana Brook, Junior, MICDS
• Published May 10, 2019
Ever since I can remember, I have been traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit my dad’s side of the family. My dad moved to the United States nearly 30 years ago, yet all of my extended family never left Johannesburg. To visit them, I must...
I feel incredibly honored to have served as a writer, editor-in-chief and contributing editor emeritus for Ohr Chadash over the past three years. I have written a wide variety of stories for the Jewish Light, from a personal narrative about my experience...
By Ryan Silver, Freshman, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published April 11, 2019
Almost 3,000 years ago, the Jewish people were freed from slavery in Egypt. Since then, Jews across the world have celebrated Passover to remember the historic event. Passover begins on the 15th night of Nisan — this year at sundown Friday, April 19...
By Katie Silver, Freshman, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published April 11, 2019
Learning about other religions and cultures can deepen one’s connection to Judaism as well as teach tolerance and understanding. These lessons are integral to confirmation classes at Congregation Shaare Emeth, which takes its Jewish high school students...
BY ETHAN KALISHMAN, Junior, John Burroughs School
• Published March 14, 2019
For nearly two weeks in January, I traveled to Doha, Qatar with 27 classmates and friends from John Burroughs School to take part in The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) Qatar. Even with the grueling 14-hour flight and eight-hour layover,...
By Bradford Siwak, Junior, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published March 14, 2019
Editor’s note: This teen page story is intended solely as parody in the spirit of Purim and should not be taken as fact.Since the dawn of matzah ball soup, an attribute of the delicious Passover dish has torn families apart, plagued millions and destroyed...
